About This Author
My name is Joy, and I love to write.
Why poetry, here? Because poetry uplifts its writer, and if she is lucky enough, her readers, too. Around us, so many objects abound to write about. Once a poet starts with a smallest, most trivial object, he shall discover that his pen will spill out what is most delicate or most majestic hidden inside him. Since the classics sometimes dealt with lofty subjects with a lofty language, a person with poetry in his soul may incline to emulate that. That is understandable. Poetry does that to a person: it enlarges the soul and gives it wings. Yet, to really soar, a poet needs to take off from the ground.
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Everyday Canvas #937435 added July 4, 2018 at 11:51pm Restrictions: None
My Favorite Lit Characters as a Teen
Prompt: Who were your favorite fictional literature characters when you were a teenager?
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Jo or Josephine March (of Little Women) I absolutely adored her, at the time, possibly because she had a mind of her own. She was a rebel of the gentlest kind and she loved to read and scribble. I thought of her as my alter ego.
Prince Mishkin (of Idiot by Dostoyevski) He amazed me, still does. I couldn’t believe anyone could be so gentle, so understanding, and so full of love, to the point of gullibility, but he wasn't gullible either. No wonder, in my later years, a lit prof thought of him as being a Christ symbol.
Jane Eyre Jane was an unfortunate girl by birth, but she, too, was a strong female character who had to fend for herself, but she did it without hurting anyone and on her own terms.
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